2016 Build a slide instrument challenge - Who is in?

chickenbonejohn

Thanks for the mention....you can get loads of parts and materials on my online shop..and you can message or email me for advice. They call me "The Godfather Of The Cigar Box Guitar", I've built quite a few cigarbox guitars, (nearly 900) and taught over 2000 people how to make and play their own cigar box guitar, and  sold  hundreds of kits, so I do know a bit about it!  But remember,  cigar box guitars aren't only about slide. I'm new on here so hope it's OK to post a couple of links to my stuff.



https://vimeo.com/148077663

http://chickenbonejohn.myshopify.com/

marktheharp

Welcome chicken bone John. Met you at Leeds guitar show last year. ..great fella to talk to and his playing and guitars have mojo <:-P

WezV

chickenbonejohn said:

 But remember,  cigar box guitars aren't only about slide. 

quite right - although this challenge is, so it seemed t make sense to suggest a CBG as an easy way in

chickenbonejohn

More than just a slide guitar..but fairly oddball. Here's one I made earlier..quite a way back in fact, made from a Honda kart racing engine. I had some spare parts in the garage...so I put this together. The choke on the carburetor switches from bridge to neck pickup.

marktheharp

↑ that is cool !

DartmoorHedgehog

OK, I'm up for making something.  Was going to be a 3-string cigar box, but having been given a kit recently (one of the cheap ones the Works were selling) I've now got one of those, and it's surprisingly good so I don't really want to gut it for parts.  

So I reckon I'll gave a go at building some sort of 5-string open-tuned machine, with a magnetic pickup, so may turn out with or without a box, not sure yet.

geetarguy85

I might be in on this, need an excuse to use my shiny new saw, drill and dremel

Serratus

I'm planning to build a challenge guitar with a total budget (at the moment) of £70, which I'm including in the challenge on sevenstring.org (they're running a Home depot challenge build from 1st Feb) - it's a Les Paul junior style with one P-90. Are you guys happy for me to include it as part of this challenge too? It would be cool for slide

WezV

I don't see an issue with it as long as we get a build thread here

Serratus

Cool, thanks Wez, I'll start a build thread now